Fourth secular blogger murdered in Bangladesh

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, August 7, 2015: Another secular blogger was hacked to death by a group of attackers at his home in Dhaka on Friday. It was the fourth killing of its kind in Bangladesh this year. Read: Avijit Roy, noted atheist blogger, hacked to death in Dhaka

Niloy Neel was hacked to death after the group broke into his apartment in Dhaka’s Goran area, the Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network reported. "They entered his room in the fifth floor and shoved his friend aside and then hacked him to death. He was a listed target of the Islamist militants," one of the members of the network told reporters.

In May this year, Ananta Bijoy Das was the third such blogger to be hacked to death in Sylhet in north-eastern Bangladesh. He was an activist of the ’Ganajagaran Mancha’, the forum demanding a ban on Islamist parties and death penalty for convicted war criminals.

Das used to blog on Mukto Mona (Freethinkers), a website propagating rationalism and opposing fundamentalism started by Avijit Roy, who was the first such blogger to be hacked to death near Dhaka University in February. His wife and fellow blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonya was seriously injured in the attack.

In March, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Dhaka. Islamist groups in Bangladesh have claimed some of these murders.

 

Courtesy: Indiatoday